Washington, D.C. & the
Ancient Temple of Newgrange, Ireland
People
have always felt a desire to be in contact with their Creator God. They looked
toward the heavens and recognized cycles and numbers which were identical to
numbers and laws associated with the creation of life here on Earth. For example
the 5 pointed star that Venus describes in the sky during her 13 revolutions
around the Sun during 8 Earth years –manifests the Fibonacci series of number 1,
1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55...
These numbers came to be called “holy numbers” because they expressed the
proportions of most of the life forms on our planet. Fibonacci numbers
themselves strive to express the Golden Mean (34
÷ 55 = 0.618) while
the Golden Spiral which defines mollusk shells and how nature unfolds is based
upon these numbers.
Ireland is abundantly blessed with holy sites so old that they were reused by
conquering races. During my 13 years stay in the Holy Isle these sites were
investigated under the guidance of The
Pattern of the Past (1969) by Guy
Underwood. His contention is that all ancient temples and holy sites around the
globe are founded above special underground water spirals and their track lines.
During my researches from Tikal to Sardinia, Egypt, Cuzco, Tiwanaku, and
countless other places, Underwood’s theories have been verified beyond question.
But my contribution to knowledge is that there is another element necessary to
the establishment of a major holy precinct –and that is that the major attendant
water lines be also aligned to astronomical phenomena, such as one of the
equinoxes or solstices.
On an
investigation of Newgrange (Bru na Boinne)
I discovered that the main underground water line of the sacred chamber also
passed out of the mound and to the left of the major standing stone (upon the
halo of standing stones that surround the mound. These are also located upon an
underground ring of water). The water line passed onward through a field to
another large standing stone and further to a low tumulus in the distance. The
direction of the path of this water-trackline phenomena coincided with the
winter solstice sunrise –consecrating this place as “On Earth as it is in
Heaven”.
The measurement of the diameter of the halo ring of stones proved that the
sacred chamber of water spirals was located at .618 (φ)
of the total diameter. I have known this fact for some time, and when my
daughter visited Washington, D.C., I once re-read
The Sacred Geometry of Washington, D.C.
(2006) by Nicholas R. Mann. As I read and researched I could not believe my
eyes as the city of Washington, D.C. began to evolve as a holy temple site
founded upon the identical principles as Bru na Boinne –astronomy, sacred
number, geometry, and subterranean water lines. Could it be possible that these
two places shared a common ancient heritage separated in time by about 5,000
years?
Their
similarities are astounding:
The
Boyne Valley astronomical complex includes Knowth, Dowth, and Bru na Boinne
which defines the winter solstice sunrise. Maryland Ave. NE in Washington, D.C.
accurately marks the summer solstice
sunrise. East Capitol Street shows the spring and autumn equinox sunrise. While,
Pennsylvania Ave. SE delineates the
winter solstice sunrise –just as Bru na Boinne. We said that the sacred
chamber and the diameter of the halo circle of stones at Bru na Boinne were in
phi
φ relationship.
Coincidentally, the main construction circles around the Capitol building are
arranged in the proportion of
φ .618 of a mile, and
1 mile, and further at
Φ 1.618 mile.
Bru na
Boinne is purposely founded and set above underground water spirals below the
holy chamber which leads out of the passage and onward toward the winter
solstice sunrise. The Capitol building (still called “The Hill”) in WDC is
centered upon Jenkins Hill, an ancient social, commercial, and ritual gathering
place where the ancient trail lines approaching the hill are directly under the
present Maryland and Pennsylvania Avenues which align to the solstices.
Underwood’s book specifically states that animals and humans instinctively
follow the underground water courses which then become marked by continual usage
as trails above ground.
Sacred Geometry
Nicholas R. Mann, The Sacred Geometry of
Washington, D.C., mentions some of the holy numbers used in the creation of
the Capital:
L’Enfant defined East Capitol Street as “160 feet in breadth, and a mile long
(5280
÷ 160 = 33). The
number 33 is the highest level in the hierarchy of Masonry. The Scottish Rite
Temple of Freemasonry in WDC has 33 Ionic columns each of which is 33 feet tall.
33 is of course half of 66 leading to the infamous but holy number 6 x 6 x 6 =
216 –the root of the Vedic astronomical cycles and a fraction of the diameter of
the Moon, 2160 miles. The Washington Monument was built 555.5 feet tall, which
equals 6666 inches; thereby combining the sacred number five and the pentagram
with the number six and the holy hexagram. Also coincidental is the fact that in
1810 Congress paid L’Enfant the sum of $666.66 for the design of the city of
Washington, D.C.. This, above all things, shows that the Senate and the
Representatives of the people were well acquainted with the mystery of geometry
and the holy numbers –and by this little joke over the amount of L’Enfant’s bill
proclaimed to the world that such a master geometer should be satisfied with
this holy number sum. Again the Fibonacci numbers express the infamous holy
number 666, because 2
÷ 3 = .66666. A
further coincidence is that Er Grah,
the Great Menhir and main foresight of the entire astronomical complex of Carnac
on the Bay of Quiberon in Brittany stood 66.6 feet tall.
Nicholas Mann explains that L’Enfant expressed his internal design for the new
city through pentagonal forms which of themselves express Golden Mean
relationships and form –because every line of the pentagram is in
phi,
φ relationship to the
length of the other lines. This special
phi relationship is of extreme antiquity and has been found at Abydos in
Egypt in a design called the Flower of
Life. When visualized in three dimensions, twelve spheres will fit around a
central thirteenth sphere. Mann says
that the Flower of Life provides the basics of measurement, and has proscribed
our use of standards such as 360 degrees, 60 minutes, 60 seconds, and the
duodecimal system. The Masonic fascination with Venus and Fibonacci numbers
explains the widespread use of the number 13 as an enduring symbol for the
original 13 colonies of the United States of America, and the perpetuity of this
number upon its paper currency.
Mann
summarizes that the Congress House, the President’s House, the Mile Column, and
L’Enfant’s intended locations
for City Hall, the District Court, and the Washington Monument –are all placed
according to the Golden Section Ratio of
phi,
φ.
Mount Vernon
George
Washington was the lead decision-maker in the layout and design of the new
capital city. Much of the site was upon his ancestral estate of Mount Vernon
which had originally been founded upon a prominent sacred Native American site
dedicated to trade, alliances, judgments, and social gatherings (Mann p.177).
This Native American site functioned exactly like the Viking
“Thing” and the Druid meeting places
throughout Europe and the ancient world. Just as Bru na Boinne was taken over by
conquering races of Ireland –the new Americans appropriated the Native holy
sites such as Treaty Oak and Jenkins Hill, the magical place of water spirals
linked with astronomy.
Mann
writes (p.33):
Several roads already existed in the area that took advantage of ridges of
higher ground. The Bladensburg-Ferry road, which approximates to Maryland Avenue
today [summer solstice sunrise], and the Georgetown-Ferry road that approximates
to Pennsylvania Avenue [winter solstice sunrise], formed a diagonal cross
through Jenkins Hill. Apart from the hills to the north, the densely wooded
Jenkins Hill was the highest point in the center of the territory of the future
city.
Mann
says (p.33) that Jefferson requested the astronomer Ellicott to carefully
ascertain “a true Meridian and the latitude of the place”. Ellicott chose the
well-known landmark Jones Point on the Potomac near Alexandria as the southern
point of his 10 mile square diamond whose points marked the cardinal directions
NSEW. Mann cites (p.74) L’Enfant, “Mr. Ellicott drew a true Meridian line by
celestial observation which passes through the area intended for the Congress
house; this line crossed by another due East and West...These lines were
accurately measured and made on bases on which the whole plan was executed.”
Ellicott and his assistant the talented Benjamin Banneker conducted their
astronomical survey upon Jenkins Hill which they defined as the new Global Prime
Meridian of zero/360 degrees. This astronomical act defined the exact center of
power from which the so-called New World was to grow and progress. It signified
a new union between Heaven and Earth during a New Age. Benjamin Banneker
(African American –Irish) was an adept astronomer and calculator who for the
rest of his life published a successful farmer’s almanac like that of Benjamin
Franklin.
(#97:archive.org/stream/andrewellicotthi00math 1-12-2012):
The
personal notebook of Ellicott says that he discovered the olden native name, Annakostia, for the
eastern branch of the Potomac from “some old surveys” of the locality. Ellicott
further reports (#95) that he had set up squared stones engraved with the number
of miles from Jones Point, as well as the variation of the magnetic needle at
the position that the stone was set. One may imagine that surveyors used
magnetic compass and that true North was achieved by astronomical observation.
Ellicott writes (#83-87) that Major Pierre Charles L’Enfant was to design the
city upon a site of ten miles square, and that Washington suggested the distance
of a mile between the Executive Mansion and the Legislative Department. Mr.
Jefferson wished to have a straight grid of streets like Philadelphia, and gave
L’Enfant numerous street maps of Versailles and prominent European cities.
However, the enthusiastic L’Enfant was born to the Age of Enlightenment and
envisioned a “heavenly city and temple” laid out in divine proportion and cosmic
geometry which would convey heavenly harmony, justice, and balance upon the new
city. L’Enfant decided that Congress, as
the meeting house of the representatives of the states and people should be
the center of this powerful cosmic design. L’Enfant was proposing a wondrous
experiment creating a sacred geometry between Heaven and Earth. He was the son
of an architect who had worked on the Sun King’s domain at Versailles.
The Temple
Throughout the world at the Temple of Solomon, Angkor Wat, the Coricancha at
Cuzco, the Parthenon, Giza, and many other centers; priest-scientists sanctified
centers of creative power, temples and
judicial and social meeting places directed to the three primary axis:
East-West, North-South, Above-Below. The last axis was a bond between
subterranean water forces and astronomical alignments. The combination of all
these forces created something magical and powerful –a sublime unity, an
axis mundi, the
omphalos or
navel of the world –a point of
connection between the terrestrial, the heavens, and the underworld. This
vertical axis was often represented by a world tree, a mound, a pyramid, a
spring, a ladder, or a pillar stone.
The
Temple was always a place to help people “to feel connected; to feel the
unifying or archetypal patterns within everything: to become aware...of a
unifying order behind the seeming chaos of ordinary existence (Mann, p.71).”
Ancient people believed in cosmic order –that government, economy, society, and
belief in God needed to function together as one organism for any and all its
parts to succeed. Perhaps L’Enfant believed in these principles and wished to
create a stage upon which everything could play out harmoniously. Mann remarks,
“Government, it was thought, had the role of defining and harmonizing the many
parts of the whole, but should intervene as little and as lightly as possible,
and most especially should not tax the people too highly. Protected, directed,
led, but sovereign and unencumbered, the American people were seen as the
driving force of the economy and the wealth of the new nation (p.82),”
Cosmic
Order should not be confused with fate. This order is the benevolent insurance
of harmony and balance allowing all things to be free to grow and develop –and
not trespass upon other members of the system. Order defends the whole against
the parts, and each part against all other parts.
Was
the Capitol intended to be a magical temple like those described above? The
Masonic Grandmaster Joseph Clarke certainly thought so during the ceremony of
laying the cornerstone of the Capitol building; when he proclaimed, “I
have...every hope that the grand work we have done today will be handed
down...as the like work of that ever memorable temple to our order erected by
our ancient Grand Master Solomon.” Seven years later President Adams again
referred to the Capitol as “this solemn Temple.”
Geodetic Energy
Our
entire planet is crisscrossed by beneficial underground water channels like the
veins and arteries of blood that bring life to our bodies. Water under the earth
as well as the blood and water content of the human body are all weak conductors
of electro-magnetic impulses –heightened when humans place themselves above
water spirals –and both are acted upon by the Sun, Moon, and planets.
Guy
Underwood’s The Pattern of the Past
documents the interplay of underground water and ancient monuments. He calls
these forces Geodetic phenomena which
he divides into Water Lines, Aquastats, and Track Lines. Underwood cites
Reginald Allender Smith of the British Museum and the Society of Antiquaries,
and noted water-diviner as writing, “At the center of every prehistoric temple
there would be found a spot from which a number of underground streams formed a
radiating pattern [spirals].” He called these spots “blind springs”, and said
that they existed at Stonehenge, Avebury, Stanton Drew, and at all similar
sites, and wrote, “The constant presence of underground water at the exact
center of these circles and earthworks is a significant feature easily verified
by others...the selection of sites for consecration by the Druids and their
predecessors no longer appears arbitrary, but dictated largely by geological
conditions.” Guy Underwood’s book describes how insects and animals react to
these sites, using them as regular paths through the landscape, and holistic
birthing-places. He goes on to describe that specific underground water patterns
create cures for headaches –while some spiral arrangements have a calming,
penitent, or deleterious psychological effect. Sometimes the special places
provide supernatural side-effects such as clarity and power of speech and good
decision making.
Because of L’Enfant’s use of exponential larger pentagrams the cosmic forces are
expanded to physically allow the future decrees of the new Congress to
illuminate the larger territories of the United States as a whole. This is magic
based upon cosmic physics interacting with the
geodetic physics of the land.
Charles Westbrook wrote The Talisman of
the United States, The Mysterious Street Lines of Washington DC (1990) and
The Kabalyon Key (2004-9) in which he
records (p.33-5) that the Holy of Holies
in the Temple of Solomon is where Heaven and Earth meet; and sometimes the
visible Presence appears as a brilliant beam of white light called the
Shekinah Glory. Thomas Jefferson
wished to have this symbol for the power of God to have appeared upon the first
Seal of the United States to symbolize their settlement in the New Promised
Land, the New Jerusalem; or the New Atlantis according to Sir Francis Bacon.
Geometry assists the
feng-shui of the Universe
Mann
says that L’Enfant used his new interpretation of the pentagram to create a plan
of harmony among Legislature, Executive, and Judiciary creating an open,
balanced, and constantly self-referencing system where sovereignty lies with the
American people.
The central plan of Washington, D.C. is based upon three circles with a common
radius of 1 mile in conjunction with an off-center circle (focused upon the
Capitol) of .618 mile around which another circle of 1.618 mile is drawn. The
intersection of these circles forms a perfect pentagram star. The use of
phi,
φ and
Φ, was regarded by
Plato to be the mathematical key to the physics of the cosmos. The Egyptians
considered it the means to the whole process of creation, producing numbers,
measures, and proportions –as the gateway to all knowledge.
Image
from
Nicholas Mann, The Sacred Geometry of
Washington, D.C.
However, the “feng-shui” of combining
subterranean water-lines and spirals with sacred geometry and astronomical
alignments does not function without conscientious and humble human
participation. Men and women must offer up prayers for guidance to the God of
All Nations and Peoples, the Creator of the Universe –so that the “temple” is
communicated to each citizen, and is created in their will and hearts.
Nicholas R. Mann.
The Sacred Geometry of Washington, D.C.
2006. Green Magic, Sutton Mallet, England
Guy Underwood.
The Pattern of the Past. 1969-71.
Pitman House, London
Charles Westbrook.
The Kabalyon Key. 2004-09. Cathedrall
Press, Greenville, North Carolina
Internet: www.archive.org/stream/andrewellicotthi00math. 1-12-2012
Article # 2
Earth Energy at
Ancient Sites
By Thomas Karl Dietrich, author of
The Origin of Culture, and The
Culture of Astronomy
“It was now clear that ancient people were utilizing the
invisible energies of the Earth in their rites as they venerated the natural
world. The current passed right through the massive barrow, surrounded by a deep
ditch, forming a node point at its center...We were being drawn back to a world
where this stupendous temple had been deliberately planned and constructed to
take account of natural energies...Here, for the first time, marked out by rows
of standing stones, was a graphic display of how the energy actually operated.
It was organic...Like a river, it formed curves and eddies, all of which were
accurately laid out in stone,” -The Sun
and the Serpent (1989) by Hamish Miller and Paul Broadhurst describing their
odyssey following the famous St. Michael’s and St. Mary’s Line through England.
Their quotation refers to Avebury, the largest stone circle in Europe (p.103-5).
In addition to the careful examination by Miller and
Broadhurst of the energy line through Britain there is much information to be
gained from another energy line, the St Michael-Apollo energy line. This line
runs from Ireland to England, and through France, Italy, and Greece on to Mount
Carmel in the Holy Land. Even though these energy paths have received great
notoriety since one’s discovery in 1967 and the other in 1977 –they are only a
part of a larger global network of many such lines surrounding the Earth.
Cultures in the Americas, Australia, Asia, and Africa have strong traditions of
powerful earth energy manifested in nodes and ley lines which they named serpent
lines, dragon and fairy paths. All of these energy currents conveyed yin and
yang, negative and positive energy throughout the landscape. This landscape was
often reshaped and marked by standing stones, stone-circles, temples, artificial
mounds, and stone water fonts. In China these energized dragon paths were
studied under the science of Feng-shui
(meaning: wind and water) which sought to correct and equalize the flow of
earth-energy through the landscape in a most balanced and beneficial way. It is
imperative that nothing should block or hinder this flow which also responded to
the winged-dragons which controlled the cosmic flow of energy from the heavens.
Antiquarians such as Norman Lockyer, Alfred Watkins, Louis
Merle and Charles Diot in France, Capt. Robert Boothby, F.C. Tyler, Reginald A.
Smith, Guy Underwood, and John Michell have taken a scientific attitude toward
earth-energy and subterranean water currents which others have embellished with
mysticism and magic. What is the reality of earth energy? Is it otherworldly, of
cosmic origin, or is there a simple explanation from the natural world of
physics?
Many ancient energy sites are famous for their curative
properties for countless ailments. The Ossory Crosses in Ireland are situated
above powerful water spirals and are noted for curing headaches. Guy Underwood
retells numerous instances showing animal and insect preferences for the energy
that comes from blind springs. He says that animals use underground water
currents called “track lines” for finding their directions, for locating
suitable places for sleeping and raising their young. The nests of birds and the
hives of bees are positioned over nodes and blind springs. Old horses like to
stand over the node of a water spiral in an open field; cows congregate on the
top of ancient barrows and like to sleep over blind springs. These currents of
Earth energy are beneficial and essential to life. Animals, birds, bees,
insects, and humans move along these terrestrial energy lines to conserve their
own energy and tap into the free power. Miller and Broadhurst say that each site
possesses its own unique signature and characteristics sometimes expressed by
unique geometric dowsing patterns. Underwood also tells the story of a rheumatic
soldier who sought out places where cows lie down because these haunts
alleviated his pains. The celebrated cities of Troy, Thebes, and Antioch were
founded by following a cow to ascertain where she would lie down and find a
comfortable rest –as a sure sign of a prosperous and healthy location for a new
city. John Michell reports that the ley lines centered above the underground
water lines are said to convey fertilizing and spiritual energy to the
surrounding countryside. Humans, animals, and plants likewise possess their own
individual energy fields whose harmonious state is essential to maintain good
health. New Age dowsers have even found it possible to investigate the
bio-magnetic fields of the human body to detect imbalance, illness and disease.
Miller and Broadhurst say (p.119) that “People who live near these energy fields
are in some way attuned to the landscape, and drawn into demonstrating this by
marking their flow with stones, gateways, signs and other structures.”
Numerous traditions record that the majority of the Druids
converted to the New Revelation of Christianity. It is therefore no wonder that
many of these ancient sites were taken over by the new converts as foundations
for churches and places of pilgrimage where penitents walked along miles of ley
lines which seemingly promoted energy and enlightenment among the fasting
travelers. Their journey thus became truly a part of the ritual.
The Sun and the Serpent demonstrates
that the science of earth-energy encompasses an inherited tradition from the
early-Megalithic to Druid, Christian, Saxon, Norman, Elizabethan, and even down
to late Victorian times. The concise traditions of Iceland, Ireland, Wales, and
Little Britain affirm a special brand of Celtic Christianity which followed the
ancient enchantments of music through the establishment of
perpetual choirs in resonance with the music of the Earth and the
cosmic energy of the Sun, Moon, and planets. This energy-science was
clandestinely practiced by architects, builders, and churchmen and kept alive by
the Benedictines, Cistercians, Dominicans, the Knights of St John, and the guild
houses and lodges of the Knights Templar and Freemasons. Ancient scientific
knowledge was safeguarded in the libraries of great monasteries of Llantwit
Major, Glastonbury, Bury St Edmunds, Clonard, and Lismore in Ireland.
Unfortunately, many of the books of great antiquity were destroyed in the frenzy
of Henry VIII’s efforts to overturn the power of the monastic system in the
British Isles in order to assert his political dominion over the Christian
church affiliated with Rome. One unfavorable aspect of the reuse of megalithic
sites is that new works which overlay the past tend to hide the correct
proportions and scientific measures of olden times.
Custom, usage, and law preserved ancient sites because
their power was recognized over the ages for the coronation of kings, the site
of law courts and judgments, recitations of history and pedigree, declarations
of war and peace, and celebrations of religious feast days. Ancient standing
stones, natural rocks, or stone circles such as the meeting places called
Things in Scandinavia were preserved
for assemblies of the bards and poets, May Pole dances, as well as fairs and
social gatherings at these locales where streams of energy merge and interact.
The Gorsedd of Wales and Brittany was
reintroduced in 1792 to promote literature, poetry, and the music of ancient
Druidic culture within the new religion of Christianity.
Obviously, there is some attractive energy hiding under
these marvelous ancient sites. It is not just water, but water conveying energy.
But where does the energy come from?
E.J. Eitel writes in
Feng-Shui, the Science of Sacred Landscape in Old China (1873), “Everything
that exists on Earth is but the transient form of appearance of some celestial
agency. Everything terrestrial has its prototype, its primordial cause, its
ruling agency in heaven...the surface of the Earth, where the mountain peaks
form the stars, the rivers and oceans answer to the Milky Way.”
Like the Heavenly dragons of the Chinese, the Earth-energy
receives its power from the heavenly bodies and the planets which are the poles
that transfer the energy from the universe to our galaxy; to our Sun and then to
the Earth below. John Michell, in
The Earth Spirit, describes the
earth-energy as “a stream of magnetic current, fertilizing, and accompanied by
manifestations of spirit...and on certain days, its seasons determined by the
positions of the heavenly bodies.” Miller and Broadhurst called the Earth “an
intelligence that responded to the energies of the heavens.” They press on to
say that the rediscovery of these ancient laws of earth-energy should help to
focus our modern concerns for the health and the well-being of our complex and
delicate planet.
Lockyer, Watkins, and the German geographer Heinsch, Bishop
Browne, Foster Forbes, Boyle Somerville, and Alexander Thom noted that many ley
lines correspond to astronomy such as the rising of certain stars and the
extreme rising and setting positions of the Sun and Moon. Cup and ring markings,
identical to the “espejos” in the Americas seemed to represent mirrors that reflected
the constellations and stars. Some describe the ley lines as the arteries and
veins of the Earth. Watkins thought of them as paths and centers of the
terrestrial nervous system. These pathways are part of the traditions of the
Australian Aboriginals, the Hopi and other Native Americans who called them
creation paths, while the Chinese called them the paths of the dragon (lung-mei)
which extended around the entire world. Dragons and serpents are of course
creatures of wisdom. Winged-dragons and winged-serpents are the creatures of
astronomical wisdom.
Michell says in The
New View over Atlantis (p.60) that “the node points of the Earth’s body were
vortexes of multi-dimensional energy” and writes that the powerful currents of
magnetic force called the dragon paths in China were composed of negative and
positive currents, represented by the white tiger and the blue dragon. The most
favorable sites were surrounded by the proportions 3 yang to 2 yin. The Chinese
relate ley lines not only to the Sun and Moon, but to the five planets.” The
lines of the dragon current run in a general straight course across country, but
locally, and on a smaller scale, their true direction follows waves and zigzags
which abate and soften the powerful directional
flow of energy. Vast landscapes were reshaped by the geomancer-dowser into a
sacred microcosm of paradise here on Earth –a garden of gentle hills, rivers,
and ponds showing the plentitude and variety of creation within a context of
gentle balance and order.
The crust of the Earth is fragmented with countless rifts,
fractures, ancient fault lines, and deep caves and chasms. These cracks in the
skin of the Earth allow water, hot and cold springs, and thermal water vapor to
circulate above and below the crust, as well as allow magma to erupt to the
surface.
The body of the Earth is an oblate-spheroid spinning like a
top on its axis while revolving around the Sun which in turn is circling the
Milky Way galaxy which is itself spinning while in transit with companion
galaxies traveling through the universe. The size, shape, mass, and compound
motions generate a unique electro-magnetic current of energy around stars like
our Sun and its members, the Earth and the planets. NASA calls this the
heliosphere: an immense magnetic bubble containing our solar system, solar wind,
and the entire solar magnetic field. Electro-magnetic energy is a law of the
universe wherever there are bodies in motion. “Electro” may simply turn out to
mean motion, while “magnetic” may
simply mean direction. Therefore, the
two words together refer to gravity
induced motion which seems to be a fundamental cause throughout the cosmos.
The Earth’s own individual magnetic field is tilted at about 11°
to the rotational axis while it interacts with the interplanetary and solar
magnetic field. One consequence of these magnetic interactions is the build-up
of magnetic energy –which wishes to flow, to dissipate and go somewhere
following the quickest path of least resistance.
The water, hot gases, and magma flowing through the
cavities of the Earth and the rivers upon its surface provide this
avenue of least resistance for the
discharge of the built-up electro-magnetic forces in the atmosphere playing upon
the surface of the Earth.
Water-diviners are able to read and tune-into water spirals
and currents at ancient sacred sites. It would seem that they are sensing more
than water currents –but are picking up the electric energy which the water is
conducting. Many accounts also call earth-energy “magnetic”. Is this the secret
–that earth-energy is “electro-magnetic energy” generated from the universe
through the Milky Way and on to our Sun and the heliosphere? This certainly
seems in tune with the traditions of sacred and holy earth-energy which was said
to be connected with the Sun or some solar deity. This would present a
mythic-scientific and astro-logic explanation palatable to the ancient people.
In Twelve-Tribe Nations, John Michell confirms that earth-energy is
connected to fault-lines when he says (p.101), “Megalithic monuments and the
more elaborate temples that succeeded them are also found to have been sited in
connection with earthly powers. They are generally situated above or near
geological fault lines, over subterranean springs and watercourses, or at nodal
points in the earth’s energy field. These places are centers of geomagnetic and
other measurable energies...”
The Sun and the Serpent, The
Pattern of the Past; my own
personal experience of over forty years investigating and dowsing ancient sites
around the world, confirm the presence of water along the St. Michael’s Line,
and beneath all ancient holy sites and megalithic buildings. Concerning
ley-lines, Miller and Broadhurst write, “They are only arteries of a vast
interconnected system –main arteries, perhaps, and with enormous significance.
But like a great river, tiny tributaries and large streams join the main flow in
a way that is totally synonymous with the organic metaphor of the planet’s
waterways. Major sites marked by prehistoric remnants always seem to be places
where these streams of energy merge and interact, often in a way unique to that
particular spot.”
There seems to be a message and meaning to these
earth-energy emanations that attracts our attention and solicits our presence at
these sites. We have a need for energy which is exciting, and necessary to our
survival. People are physically and psychologically inspired and drawn to
localities rich in energy patterns. This mechanism of distributing healthful
electro-magnetic energy through the channels and arteries of the Earth may
explain the foundation of cities upon certain sites; and the reason of their
rise and fall when they had expanded beyond the territory of their sacred energy
supply. Angkor Wat and Tikal may have suffered this inexplicable and
extraordinary demise as their gigantic cities (uncovered by aerial survey)
suddenly imploded into nothingness.
The Pacific Ring of Fire produces frightening volcanic
eruptions and monumental earthquakes; but is yet the home of tremendous human
populations. These populations have –for the time being –built great cities
noted for science and ingenuity; possibly inspired by the electro-magnetic
energy percolating along the crust of the Earth. The inimitable Silicon Valley
lies directly upon the giant fissure of the San Andreas fault-line which
produces California’s earthquakes. It is also strange that the San Francisco Bay
Area is home to the universities of Stanford and Berkeley who have produced more
medal winners in the Olympics than most countries throughout the world. The St. Michael’s and St. Mary’s Lines are
winding currents which demarcate a straight direction across southern England in
great part along the boundary of the Cretaceous and Jurassic formations. The
famous Glastonbury Tor upon the Michael’s Line is an extinct volcanic mound full
of caves and caverns, many of which have been sealed by human intervention. Its
13th century church set upon its summit was demolished by an
earthquake along this ancient fault line which also destroyed the edifice at St.
Michael’s Mount on the very same day –a distance of 150 miles away.
The dowsers record many subordinate arteries that run off
of the Mary and Michael lines and terminate at nodes which often display unusual
patterns that generate pentagram-star-shapes and geometric designs, related to
number and music. These terminal places have traditionally been called dance
rings, wind-mills, and mill-wheels. Inside one of the stone circles called The
Hurlers, the energy line traced an infinite succession of geometric and
inexplicable patterns. At Brentor a distorted pentagram pattern had been a site
for a May Pole and an ancient fair. At Glastonbury a distorted pentagram
appeared at the node of the Crossing of the Michael line and the Mary line at
the location where the altar had stood before the destruction of the Abbey.
At the Devil’s Bed and Bolster, a large stone slab above
the Michael’s Line showed that “energy was pouring off, exactly like a heat haze
on a hot summer’s day. This is a clearly visible manifestation which can be seen
by anyone (p. 96),” according to Miller and Broadhurst.
In 495 AD an incandescent vision of the Archangel Michael
appeared to fisherman atop a mount in southern Cornwall. Numerous places along
the Michael Line have been the scene of miraculous healings and revelations
often accompanied by apparitions of St. Michael, the Dragon-slayer and Judge of
the Living and the Dead. St. Michael’s Mount was formerly the abode of the Giant
Cormoran. At the White Lady waterfall apparitions of an ancient goddess have
appeared. She is a spirit who has saved many who fell into the waters below.
Many researchers tell of color and light phenomena surrounding these holy sites.
Not only do rapidly moving points of light appear, but also vaporous illuminated
apparitions of a seemingly sacred nature. Miller and Broadhurst,
The Sun and the Serpent (p.37) say
that visions and apparitions of Saint Michael were reported in the 495 AD at St.
Michael’s Mount in Cornwall where a group of local fishermen experienced an
incandescent vision of the archangel. This instance began a tradition of
Christian pilgrimage to the site which produced miraculous healings and
revelations. The European St. Michael’s Line has several traditions of
“conflagrations of fire” such as at Mount Carmel during the time of the prophet
Elijah and the priests of Baal. Other fire images appeared at Sagra di San
Michele in Piedmont in 987 AD, and at Mount St. Michael in 1270 AD.
Miller & Broadhurst report (p.27) that the Earth has an
enormous energy field that exists far out into space and interacts with those of
other heavenly bodies [now known as the heliosphere]. The same authors relate
that conjunctions of Saturn and Uranus influenced the electro-magnetic lines,
“Previous experience had shown that the energies appear to react to celestial
events (p.75).” Underwood wrote that the position and phases of the Moon cause
the spirals around blind springs to expand and retract dramatically. The Michael
Line is angled about 27°
NE and therefore lines up with the rising Sun on specific dates of the ancient
calendar. “Beltane (May Day) and Llughnasad (Lammas, August Day) were the high
spots of the ancient world, when beacon fires were kindled on the hills and
people across the land celebrated the return of Bel, the Phoenician Sun God,
with his power to fertilize the land with the energizing vitality of spring, and
later thanked him and his consort, the earth Goddess, for their bountiful
harvest.” The same authors speak of their dowsing experience upon Glastonbury
Tor which they described as “a system of energy fusion where the forces inherent
in the land itself were conjoined with the forces from the center of the solar
system...Like a vast electrical transformer with the coils of wire wound around
the central magnetic core, the volcanic mound seemed to be a generator and
transmitter of natural energies that exerted a powerful effect on human beings
(p.90).” They also report that the long conical shape of Glastonbury Tor
is precisely aligned to the Beltane axis (p.89).
Music is said to have originated from the
Music of the Spheres and Planets. One
Greek account tells of Orpheus moving stones through the power of music. Chants,
song, and music in concert with the electro-magnetic energy may have assisted in
the levitation of enormous stones, the movement of earth, and site leveling.
This energy assistance is further enhanced by “astro-logic” when the Sun, Moon,
and planets are focused upon the particular site in question. Most of the great
ancient sites in the world are places of extraordinary landscape beauty and
exceptional building proportions; and above all, a sensation of peace, power,
and energy. In Druid times “Perpetual Choirs” were organized to create an
enchantment over the land, to soothe its citizens and protect from outside
invasions. And numerous traditions claim that fairy music has long been
associated with these special sites.
Glastonbury
Various electro-magnetic lines produce a powerful
atmosphere of sanctity, a heavenly odor of burning incense, voices raised in
strange cords and harmonies. Glowing apparitions of the “White Lady”, Earth
Mother, the Green Man of Nature, and especially St Michael the archangel are
manifestations at several places upon the Michael’s Line. Ordinary people speak
of the strange magic and presence of Glastonbury. Even cynics comment on the
weird mood of a place, others detect a powerful transformational energy that
induces psychic and spiritual effects. Many report dynamic weather effects,
consciousness shifts, revelations, and spiritual experiences. In general
Glastonbury Abbey has an uplifting and spiritual effect on visitors identical to
that of Tikal in Guatemala which seems to dispel all worldly care. Our guide who
had visited sacred sites in India told us that the sages there acknowledge
Glastonbury as one of the great holy sites of the world.
The old French work
Perceval le Gallois ou le conte du Graal is the basis of modern Grail
traditions; yet, this French work attributes its facts to “the Isle of Avalon,
in a house of religion that standeth at the head of the Moors Adventurous, there
where King Arthur and Queen Guinevere lie.” This, of course, is a reference to
the famous library at Glastonbury.
Down by the Abby of Glastonbury the Mary and Michael Lines
demarcate the old church and cross at a node by the old altar site. But further
on, above on the Glastonbury Tor, the two lines seem to dance and mate around
two nodes on the steep hillside.
The dowsers following the energy of the Michael and Mary
lines up the Glastonbury Tor discovered a place where these lines formed an
“energy labyrinth” that appeared to be like a sketch of lines matting and
preforming a sexual union. The dowsers were quite embarrassed at these results
fearing that some would say that this was sacrilegious. However diagrams of
classical labyrinths seem to evoke this very image of impregnating a vessel-like
cavern. The ancient labyrinth near the pyramids of Egypt could possibly be
rediscovered by following the energy-lines there.
All energy emanations are not necessarily productive and
beneficial. Both Underwood and Miller and Broadhurst elaborate on “black lines
and streams” and a compendium of effects which induce sulfurous smells, a
burdensome atmosphere exuding gloom, despondency, melancholy, nausea,
self-doubt, fear, black depression, ill health, and a penitent attitude. Mood
swings of ups and downs were reported by the publisher of Gothic Image whose
chair and desk sit atop the Michael’s Line in Glastonbury town. One of the
explanations of these unwholesome currents is the build-up of stagnant energy
which has nowhere to go, thus creating an obstruction. Indeed the Chinese
feng-shui epitomizes these problems
and corrects them by altering the surrounding landscape to allow the energy to
escape and move on.
This “Mother-Circle of Britain” is the largest earthwork
and stone-circle in Europe. The rough stones weigh up to 60 tons and are
arranged in sequence as phallus and on-edge-diamond shapes signifying the
alternating positive (male) and negative (female) energy. A mile away stands the
man-made conical hill of Silbury, and the West Kennet Long Barrow, the largest
of its kind in Britain. Avebury is definitely a fairy-place with the moat on the
inside of the high embankment instead of outside like a fortress-moat. In some
ways Avebury is reminiscent of the Giant’s Ring near Belfast, as well as the
rough stone rows of Carnac in Brittany. Originally, Avebury was enhanced by 600
huge stones which were vandalized and destroyed through the ages, and now only
76 remain. In 1719 the Rev. William Stukeley pictured the original structure as
“a monstrous serpent spread across the countryside, its sinuous body writhing
over the gentle chalk hills. Its head was the stone circle on Overton Hill,
romantically named The Sanctuary. Its neck was formed by an avenue of standing
stones that led a way to the southern entrance of the massive henge, where,
enclosed in the great circle were two small rings, one dedicated to the Sun, the
other to the Moon...They have made plains and hills, valleys, springs and rivers
contribute to form a temple of three miles in length. They have stamped a whole
country with the impress of this sacred character, and that of the most
permanent nature (Miller & Broadhurst p.102).”
All of the above information leads to a connection between
Humans, Earth, and Heaven through the transfer of energy from the universe to
the chasms of our globe in order to feed us with energy, and to provide a
blessed sanctuary for meetings and sacred rituals.
Dr. William F. Romain who
studied the great tribal meeting place, the Ohio Great Serpent Mound confirms,
“The Serpent Mound also lies near the intersection of several fault lines, and
in an area of unusual magnetic activity, combined with an area of unusually
intense gravity anomalies (The Suppressed
History of America, p.39).”
Miller and Broadhurst analyze their research and present
their conclusions:
“The way the currents operate and their association with
rocky out-crops had also led us to believe that, on a purely physical level,
they were connected with geological fault lines in the Earth’s crust. It seemed
a remarkable coincidence that in the 13th century, the
same earthquake had demolished two of
the most important St Michael churches in southern Britain, at Glastonbury and
St Michael’s Mount, a hundred and fifty miles apart. St Michael’s Church at
Brentor [a node crossing of the Michael and Mary lines] was built on a volcanic
mound, which also indicated that these energies might be issuing from deep
within the planet, perhaps condensing as streams of bio-magnetic energy from the
molten magma in the heart of the Earth (p.205).”
John Michell in
Twelve-Tribe Nations writes (p.135) that the famous oracle of Apollo at
Delphi is located on a geological rift in a volcanic region shaken by
earthquakes. Michell continues (p.155), “Experiments with magnetometers and
other instruments prove that the sites of stone circles are anomalies in the
earth’s energy field. The levels of radiation there are markedly different from
those of their immediate surroundings. Geological fault lines run below or near
ever stone circle. The rocks beneath the earth at those places are under
friction, and this produces an electrical discharge that is sometimes briefly
visible in the form of lights on or above the surface of the earth...Devereau
points out, there is a psychic dimension to earth lights. Their appearance seems
to induce in some people a state of vision, and is associated with periods of
religious revival.” In the summer of 1988 a light from the sky was seen shining
down on Silbury Hill near Avebury, and the next morning rings and circles were
discovered in the nearby cornfields.
Again
in Twelve-Tribe Nations Michell
describes the holy sanctuary of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, saying
(pp.194-7) that the equinoctial Sun was rising from the east behind the Mount of
Olives and followed the Messianic ley-line through the Golden Gate whereupon a
flash of light entered the sanctuary with a thunderous sound. A twenty cubit
cube made of special woods and metals stood at the heart of the Holy of Holies
where the walls and ceilings were lined with gold, and on the Rock of Foundation
stood the Ark of the Covenant, and above it a pair of golden angels protecting
it with outstretched wings as an energy circuit over the ark. Thus the Shechinah
Glory, the Divine Presence, the light and spirit of Israel, hovered above the
Ark. This spirit of fertility then spread out through the veins and fissures in
the earth to all parts of the country...the Temple ritual evidently gave people
a feeling of well-being. They were happy and prosperous and filled with high
spirits and good health. The function of the Temple was to marry the forces of
heaven and earth for the benefit of human spirits and the fertility of the
countryside. The laws and the legends of the Temple at Jerusalem depict an
instrument of an elaborate sacred science. Michell continues (p.101), “A legend
of the temple at Jerusalem says that it was the center of a network of
underground water channels, which spread outward to all parts of the country.”
Again he writes (p.174), “The cosmically proportioned temple spread the holy
energy of the Ark throughout the country, and peace and happiness
prevailed...The northern gateway to the Holy Land is between the parallel ridges
of Mount Lebanon and Mount Hermon...is born the River Jordon. It winds its way
south along a deep geological rift (p.176)...”
Recently, I dowsed the roadway upon the San Andreas Dam,
south of San Francisco, completed in 1869 and built directly upon the center of
the largest fault-line in North America. Dowsing this roadway showed extremely
powerful currents of both negative and positive energy so strong that it spun
the copper-wire loop in a complete revolution even as my fingers clamped hard
upon the ends of the wire. While descending and ascending the long road of about
a quarter of a mile from the dam, the electro-magnetic currents registered with
great strength indicating how very wide and deep this fault projected.
Final Conclusions
Earth-energy is not a simple subject that can be comprehended in a one
dimensional answer. It may be approached from a cosmological viewpoint
encompassing the fields of universal energy, astro-logic transmission,
terminating in geological pathways employing water as a medium. This mechanism
of cosmic-earth-energy is cycled through creatures and vegetation in nature and
helps to sustain and vitalize all life forms.
1.)
Geological Component:
The St. Michael and St. Mary Line have a definite geological component based
upon ancient fault lines used by underground water flows. This combination of a
chasm and water provides a pathway to conduct energy from the electro-magnetic
heliosphere made up of the Sun, Moon, and other members of the solar
system. This multi-member mechanism results in a safe and beneficial dispersal
of useful and powerful energy. The periodical confluence of geological and
astrological alignments is the cause of bursts of moving lights, illumed
apparitions, and otherworldly sensations of energy, sanctity, and power.
2.)
Astro-logical Component:
The seasonal shifting declinations of the Sun, Moon, and planets –relative to
the horizon and azimuth –form alignments with the subterranean caves, cavities,
and fault lines which intensify or diminish the energy flow. Since certain
seasonal declinations (solstices, equinoxes, cross-quarter-days) have been
celebrated in the religious and cultural calendar –the coincidence of holy day
and energy-thrust appears to be a magical accord between Earth and Heaven. The
accord is not supernatural, but only astro-logic.
All weather, earthquakes, volcanoes, and natural events are caused by
geometric relationships of a geographic place on Earth coming into aspect with
the position of the Sun, Moon, and planets. In the long-term these relationships
were the creative cause of fissures in the Earth’s crust -which have developed,
widened, or crushed back together in time. The failure of many ancient oracles
such as Delphi is caused by the collapse of the channels of the inspirational
thermal currents.
3.)
Cosmological Component:
The energy experienced at these sacred sites comes from the universe expressed
by the ancient saying, “On Earth as it is in Heaven”. The electro-magnetic
photons of our heliosphere are energy-packets from the universe, which have been
conveyed to our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Then this energy from the universe
and the Milky Way illuminates the Sun which produces the heliosphere of energy
encompassing our solar system. The formula “E equals mc squared” attempts to
express energy as the sum of mass and the speed of light squared –obviously an
abstraction from the ancient idea of the flow of a river of energy throughout
the universe. The Kybalion (1908)
says, “Matter is but a form of Energy (p.69).”
Earth-energy exhibits so many forms (light, music, sound) that it must be a
phenomena coming from the highest levels of energy in the universe; namely light
in motion –such as galaxies and stars. Earth-energy is a misnomer because these
forces have a cosmic source which interacts with the Earth. Earth-energy sounds
as if the Earth is producing this energy, when it is only a vehicle through
which this energy is manifest.
Humankind owes a debt of gratitude to the water-diviners who first
recognized this energy (accompanying a water flow) –a force so enlightening and
nourishing, that ancient sites have been passed down for generations, and
perfectly adopted from culture to culture among different peoples and invading
forces. The cosmic nature of these energy forces is truly realized in the fact
that megalithic people and even modern Elizabethans could meditate and worship
at the same sacred enclosure. The soothing energy of Glastonbury and Avebury has
attracted convocations of mankind over the cosmic ages of time.
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The Kybalion. 1908. Yogi Publication
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The New View over Atlantis. 1969.
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